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Youth unemployment fund planned

EU officials are expected to set up a €5 billion fund to tackle the youth unemployment crisis, reports Reuters. The plans are to be discussed during Thursday's summit of EU leaders in Brussels. More than 50 percent of young people are without jobs in Greece and Spain.

Opinion

Two years on from the highly-controversial EU-Turkey deal, many thousands of refugees are still trapped on Greek islands. One of them offers an open invitation to EU leaders to see their inhospitable conditions at the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos.

Interview

The controversy over the new EU Commission top civil servant is revealing of what is wrong with EU institutions and how they are blocked by national governments, says award-winning Austrian novelist Robert Menasse.